Claims: The Y2K bug is back! Dutch dev digs up untimely flaw in old BSD build
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- title: The Y2K bug is back! Dutch dev digs up untimely flaw in old BSD build Source
- url: https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/06/15/the-y2k-bug-is-back-dutch-dev-digs-up-untimely-flaw-in-old-bsd-build/5255645 Source
- summary: It’s been more than a quarter century since the Y2K bug threatened to disrupt the not-so-modern world, and while the patching efforts of global IT heroes prevented a millennial mess, the problem persists as a Dutch dev just found a new instance of the numeric nightmare. While working on an emulator for the venerable Programmed Data Processor (PDP) series of “minicomputer” systems manufactured between the 1950s and 1990s, Folkert van Heusden spotted an unpatched Y2K bug in the Network Time Protoc… Source
- published: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:30:00 +0200 Source